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20th Century Art
Impressionism to Purism
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
07/23/2014

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Impression, Sunrise 

Claude-Oscar Monet 

1873

 

  • Wanted to capture what he saw on Canvas
  • Portraying on canvas 
  • Not interested in detail 
  • means for capturing are small dabs of paint on canvas
  • Intends to be highly naturalistic through colours that he saw in nature 
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Boulevad des Capucines 

Claude-Oscar Monet

1873

Made to appear spontaneous

 

upon roof top looking down 

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Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre

Pierre-Auguste Renoir 

1876

 

  • Portrays light and frivolous 
  • lots of trees that gave cover 
  • Dappled effect -- Trees creating light spots on people 
  • adding a level of visuality where most paintings before impressionist time period were smooth with non visible brush strokes 
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George Seurat (1859-1891) 

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte 1886

 

-- 1884-1886

-- came up with Cromoluminary -- 

 

Critic dubbed new technique as --Neo-Impressionism (new) 

 

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